Sat.Mar 15, 2014

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How do I Really Feel About Anonymous Apps Like Secret?

Both Sides of the Table

'By now you likely know that Marc Andreessen weighed in on anonymous apps in a 12-part Twitter diatribe. Anonymity. As the old joke goes, “on the Internet nobody knows you’re a dog.” I have been weighing in slowly on the topic over the past few weeks on Twitter but have avoided writing a blog post about it until now. This was in part due to a tremendously busy 30-day period for me (in which my overall writing has been down) and in part the inevitability of knowing that weighing

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Most Startups Get Stuck In The Early Struggle Stage

Startup Professionals Musings

'Every startup wants to be a predictable success, yet so few ever achieve this enviable position. In reality, getting there is not a random walk, and requires an understanding of the stages that every business must navigate and the organizational characteristics necessary at each stage. Les McKeown, in his book “ Predictable Success ” outlines these stages and characteristics for any business.

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What does it feel like to invest in a failed startup as an angel investor?

Gust

'It’s not great…but it IS part of the business. If you are an angel investor, the only way to do it is to take things very seriously. If you take angel investing seriously, you should aim to develop a portfolio of at least 30-40 investments over 5-10 years of active investing. If you invest in 40 startups, 20 of them (absolute minimum!

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Emotion in marketing: How our brains decide which content is shareable

The Next Web

'This post originally appeared on the Buffer blog and has been republished with permission. Every day it seems like we feel hundreds of different emotions – each nuanced and specific to the physical and social situations we find ourselves in. According to science, it’s not that complicated by a long shot. A new study says we’re really only capable of four “basic” emotions: happy, sad, afraid/surprised, and angry/disgusted.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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Don’t Change, Leverage

Mike Michalowicz

'I was contacted by a business that’s struggling. Atypically, the concern was not financial. The founder was struggling with his own micromanagement. He can’t help but insert himself into every part of the business, unintentionally stunting the growth of his employees and his company. It is a surprisingly common dilemma. Micromanagement was necessary in the early days.

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Are We What We Fund? Should VCs Only Back What They Believe is Morally Correct?

Hunter Walker

'When I was 20, late Friday nights were about last call at the bar. Now they’re about Twitter threads. a16z’s Marc Andresseen shared some thoughts about the need for product designers to be morally responsible for what they put into the world. He didn’t call out any startups by name but the conversation ended up focusing on anonymous spaces and whether they always degrade into negative behaviors.

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Motivational Clips for Entrepreneurs: “This Is My Identity”

Scott Edward Walker

'Welcome to our weekly series “ Motivational Clips for Entrepreneurs.” Each week, we share a favorite video clip to inspire and motivate entrepreneurs. Why? Because we know how tough it is being an entrepreneur; and whether you’re launching a venture, trying to iterate on your business model or raising funds, you need a little juice to help you push the ball forward.